... been loss the landlord, loss to the tenants, mid consequent 10-s to the community. It would he contrary to the nature of the Whigs to legislate for Ireland without injuring her. Measures, which might have been useful, have l>eea hampered with conditions ...

... Government have at length resolved to spend the paltry sum of £2,000, in instructing farmers in the cultivation of flax. The Whigs have in this, as in all their measures, taken care to nullify the gift the mode of giving. Had this decision been come to two ...

... wealth and population of Ireland are decreasing rapidly, and by one of those strange anomalies which have ever cha* racteiised Whig legislation for that unfortunate country, the actual taxation is augmenting, and now presents a most unjust and oppressive ...

... upon a wrong principle, where rating should never adopted, as the franchise test, and the adoption of this principle by the Whigs in the Irish votes was a most fatal error. It has prevented the granting of leases, and retarded the improvement of the land ...

... develop the resources with which onr country has been so richly endowed natore, but which has been grievously marred the sets of Whig Governments. There can that the cultivation of flax will prove highly remnnerative to the farmer, now that cotton ia difficult ...

... Empire were entrusted to the Conservatives, and your father was Premier. Now, unfortunately, the Empire is governed by the Whigs, and you, I sorry to say, represent their miserable policy in Ireland. There is no apparent reason why Ireland should not ...

... that I her ita political batlle.gronnd, and tho Roman Co- lent as regariis my e ics, . ~ tholie clergy, who supported the Whigs in Parliament, that rny failmg. are superfic.al, whereas some of thorn fortified their religions influence tho land question ...